Advent 2016

Delayed in posting this but here are our advent plans for this year

Luke helped me to make all these envelopes to help our countdown. They are filled with the activities we will be doing each day - e.g. church nativity, visiting Christmas tree festival OR things we will be making e.g. salt dough decorations, Christmas cards, presents for library staff.

I have raided the library again to help complete the stack of 25 books! - lots of wrapping.

Also we are looking at this short devotional with a short reading and sticker for each day.

Should be fun ;)

Advent

This advent we have been reading Ishtar's Odyssey, the fourth book in the series started with Jotham's journey. These are great advent devotionals with a story that really captures that boys interest and gives a different slant on the Christmas story. The book also suggests you try the different foods mentioned in the story - so far we have had Persian meatballs, nougat and baklava -yum.

Amy has had a Christmas book to open after tea every day in advent(we had quite a few and I supplemented these with some from our local library) and a sticker to add onto the nativity scene.